Example sentences of "to look back [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It caused him to question both , and to look back to nature for inspiration : ‘ yet nature is invariable ’ he said . |
| 2 | His popularity seems to rest on his ability to look back with pride . |
| 3 | Tremayne 's own mood appeared to be a deepening depression over the evening 's finale , and I was sorry because he deserved to look back with enjoyment . |
| 4 | You might find it useful to look back at exercise 8.3 . |
| 5 | He started to turn , with difficulty , to look back at Ace . |
| 6 | At a wall corner I stopped to look back at Thwaite 's collection of stone houses shimmering in the dale . |
| 7 | Who knows , maybe it will appear with time , and by the end of the year we will be able to look back at Figure 2 and say that this was one of the first proofs of the existence of the W particle ? |
| 8 | Hence , a sequence of shots might be : mother and toddler together on sands , toddler crawls out of picture leaving mother watching to see where it goes cut ; an older child digging a sand castle cut ; closer shot of mother looking out of picture in opposite direction , turns to look back in direction of off-frame toddler , cut from her to toddler who is now well on way to the sea cut ; father getting to his feet to go after child , pan with him as he sets off and catches up with the wanderer , they start to walk back to mother cut ; the older child carries on with its castle-digging ( see pages 62–63 ) . |